Your Kardashian index is (number of Twitter followers)/(number of citations). According to google scholar mine's about 0.732... hmmhttps://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-014-0424-0 …
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I took all of it as a obviously non-serious joke, myself. But it was interesting to me that a journal published the joke.
Oh, I recognized it as a joke. But one expressing some serious intent. People's jokes are often deniable ways of expressing their values. Similar to the faculty who "joke" about grad students as indentured servants etc; it's extremely distasteful, at best.